On 10 Jan 2023 at 8:16, Go Canes wrote: From: Go Canes <[email protected]> Date sent: Tue, 10 Jan 2023 08:16:05 -0500 Subject: Re: Installed Fedora 37 on older Dell with Windows 10, but doen't show windows as boot option?? To: [email protected], Community support for Fedora users <[email protected]> Send reply to: Community support for Fedora users <[email protected]>
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2023 at 2:08 AM Michael D. Setzer II via users > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Don't use windows much at all. So probable not worth doing for me. Windows > > was pre-install so have no windows media, and would have to find method to > > get the key code. > > Do a google search for "download windows 10 iso" and there are links > to download the install media directly from Microsoft. > > Older Dell systems had a sticker with the Windows license key. You > can use "sudo strings /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/MSDM" to extract a > license key that is embedded in the firmware. There is also a Windows > program I have used that extracts the license key along with other > useful info, but I don't remember what it is, and I don't have any of > my Windows VM booted at the moment. Strange.. Looked all over the machine, and Only 2 stickers I find on machine are one that says Windows 7, and another one that says Intel i5 inside?? But when I got machine, it had Windows 10 installed, and CPU-z and lshw-gui both show the CPU as an i3 not an i5? Think I've used belarc advisor before and think it actually displays the windows key. Think it is Optiplex 9020 small form.. Since the Windows 10 was installed on regular bios boot, don't think the firmware would have any info. Just had a small sda1partition with recovery, and sda2 was the c drive on the 1T drive with 8G of ram. Had done a check on upgrading cpu, but the socket and bios it reported wouldn't support above the i3, or above the chips generation. Recently upgraded CPU in one of my ASUS motherboards from and AMD 2 core to AMD 8 core with no issues. Did require a much better fan to keep temp down. First computer was a Heathkit H-120 with 8088 and 8080 cpus. Had 768K of Ram with separate video board with 192K of ram from video. Way back in 1983. Old dos 1 with dual 320K floppies. So, lots of changes over years.. Thanks for info. > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue +------------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor (Retired) mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] Guam - Where America's Day Begins G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ +------------------------------------------------------------+ _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
